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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:42PM (#50340520)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Obj-C/C++, iOS/macOS, Linux, Windows/NT (kernel/user), virtualization, TLS, TPM (TCG), Operating Systems, Security, Rust

Resume/CV: https://guzman.io/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Software developer with a decade of experience focused on systems programming across multiple domains including userspace daemons, kernel extensions/drivers, and coprocessor firmware. Very interested in operating systems and other low-level work. I've worked with Windows, Linux, and macOS/iOS across these domains. I'm primarily interested in full-time engineering roles, open to relocation as well as remote/hybrid work.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. I'm mainly pointing out that the UI toggles being counterintuitive doesn't change the semantics -- blocking all incoming connections blocks built-in and signed software from receiving connections too.
It's pretty easy to go online and understand what the "FTPPassive" key is (and why it's enabled by default). The firewall settings thing is a UI bug, if that. Those other toggles don't take effect when blocking all incoming connections is active. As such, it doesn't matter what the value for the other toggles is, so it resets them to the default (true). Perhaps a sharp point if you toggle firewall often, but not an outright security issue. My laptop has that systemuiserver preference setting there as well.

I think this person is a bit paranoid and reading a bit too much into things judging from their timeline.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:19PM (#49925178)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Obj-C/C++, iOS/macOS, Linux, Windows/NT (kernel/user), virtualization, TLS, TPM (TCG), Operating Systems, Security, Rust

Resume/CV: https://guzman.io/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Software developer with a decade of experience focused on systems programming across multiple domains including userspace daemons, kernel extensions/drivers, and coprocessor firmware. Very interested in operating systems and other low-level work. I've worked with Windows, Linux, and macOS/iOS across these domains. I'm primarily interested in full-time engineering roles, open to relocation as well as remote/hybrid work.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:50PM (#49531167)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Obj-C/C++, iOS/macOS, Linux, Windows/NT (kernel/user), virtualization, TLS, TPM (TCG), Operating Systems, Security, Rust

Resume/CV: https://guzman.io/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Software developer with a decade of experience focused on systems programming across multiple domains including userspace daemons, kernel extensions/drivers, and coprocessor firmware.

The author's whole schtick is purposefully rage-baiting Rust devs, so really not that shocking that he downplays the compile-time trade-off
Re:Omarchy Is Not A Distro on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:34PM (#48259298)
I mean... Yeah, it's a curated set of dotfiles that one guy spent a while tuning to his liking.

I don't use it, but I figure it's just a matter of most people being too lazy to polish up their own equivalent, so they'll use someone else's.

Re:WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What? on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:35PM (#47020529)
The problem is there are many middleboxes that monitor port 443 and will drop any traffic that they can't decode as TLS (which in this case means TLS 1.2 or below). The choice was between masking traffic as an earlier version of TLS or forcing the replacement of all of those middleboxes. It's a no-brainer.
Re:WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What? on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:14AM (#47001461)
I don't know, I don't think it's really a huge waste of time considering I just read the entire comment thread in a handful of minutes. And beyond that, failing to comply with RFC requirements is the bug here -- a workaround existing for a specific language isn't a fix.
Re:Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:09PM (#46660975)
The ruling itself even says that every case has to be taken in context, and that particular one was a known felon who has been accused of a crime fleeing in a vehicle. As a matter of fact, if you look at the decision [1] you won't find the word "defense" once, only "fleeing".

1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1261.ZPC.html

> Electric cars are supposed to be simple. Give me something in a shape of a Civic, with the engine replaced with a motor and a battery good for 150 miles, and sell it for $10-12k new. Don't even need an entertainment cluster, give me a place to put a tablet or a phone and just have a bluetooth speaker.

I think this is more or less the pitch behind Slate (https://www.slate.auto/en), though it's more of a truck/SUV form factor.

Re:Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help in 3 days on Monday September 29, 2025 @09:32PM (#45420996)
Worth mentioning this isn't a port of the entire system, more a reimplementation that lacks MANY features of the real System 7
Re:Ask HN: What is the actual state of Linux phones? on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:34PM (#45306925)
I'm still bitter that they never refunded me for my canceled pre-order, despite promising to at the time. It's been years and I never got any money back (or a phone, for that matter). I consider Purism to be an untrustworthy business as a result.
I've actually heard people argue against having lights on signage for this exact reason: people shouldn't be reliant on lights that may or may not work to modulate their behavior when driving. They had been referring mainly to pedestrian crossing signs, but I think it applies here too. I generally treat any school speed limit sign as in effect if it's before nightfall as a rule of thumb.
Re:Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip on Friday July 04, 2025 @04:42PM (#44467735)
Where are you seeing devices without Bootguard fused? I'd be very curious to get my hands on some of those...
Re:XenevaOS – Modern Computing Reimagined on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:49PM (#44457518)
Re:High-Severity Vulnerability in Notepad++ on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:33PM (#44428124)
Headline is a little misleading imo -- the vulnerability isn't in Notepad++ itself as much as its installer. Current users, I imagine, don't have anything to worry about.
Buy your own DOCSIS modem, opt out of renting theirs. It'll pay for itself after a few billing cycles (the modem rental fee is $15 per month)
Re:Obvious Things C Should Do on Sunday January 12, 2025 @04:39AM (#42672365)
> I am not making things up when I say that the very first question I had about how to use this module, either is not answered, or I couldn't find the answer. That question was "what regular expression syntax is supported?". This is such a fundamental question, yet there is no answer provided.

The main page for the documentation answers that question: https://docs.rs/regex/1.11.1/regex/index.html

It even says "If you just want API documentation, then skip to the Regex type", which is what you were linked to before.

Re:Ghostty 1.0 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @10:12PM (#42519653)
> I hate things in "if you know then you know" category. This is one of them.

> Documentation? Reading a manual for an unknown thing?

Well. Yes? Maybe I'm assuming too much, but I feel like the target audience here (terminal emulator 'enthusiasts') either know about this already or are totally willing to go over to the manual to read what it is. The very first section upon opening the documentation explains it succinctly: Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:32PM (#42404869)
Add 'UK' to the search and you get a result pretty easily: https://themultibank.co.uk/
Re:Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux on Sunday November 03, 2024 @07:23PM (#42037286)
I think it's fair to say the majority of people don't really care about any of those things as much as having a system that just works -- which was part of their whole argument regarding why package maintainers love it so much and end users really don't tend to care.
Pretty sure it's entirely possible to find out what someone has said in a major publication about a major figure, actually.
What is with people treating LLMs like a search engine? All of this could have been avoided by just using Google.
Re:Planet eBook: free literature for your device on Monday July 29, 2024 @12:40AM (#41097934)
There's something to be said for groups like this one and Standard eBooks (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) doing some work to clean up and beautify public domain books like the ones in Project Gutenberg. Even Standard eBooks mentions that their books are all sourced from Gutenberg.

This group seems much less complete than SE, and in my opinion, they're not nearly as nice looking. I think that's more a matter of personal taste though.

Re:Funtoo Linux is shutting down on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:42PM (#41083893)
There are much more long-lived distros still around as well... But really, I meant more the danger of having the distro die without any clear plan for transition. In Funtoo's case it was less a matter of how long it would be around as much as what the plan would be if the BDFL decided they're done.
Re:Funtoo Linux is shutting down on Friday July 26, 2024 @08:36PM (#41083632)
This sort of situation is why I've been hesitant to try smaller Linux distros in the past, especially for daily drivers or any sort of long term use. The allure of innovative features and modernity tends to be weighed against the long-term prospects and likelihood of longevity.

That being said, I did think funtoo would be around longer. I totally get the motivation; if a volunteer hobby isn't doing it for you, you ought to be free to let it go. I'm sure that the remaining dev/user base is perfectly free to fork off and rename to maintain the spirit of the distro too.

It's wild to think that people would use the same sort of trick you used to use to revive a dead Xbox to charge their car faster...
Unless you need a refund. Then you'll be waiting for literal years!
I don't think that they're referring to this specific phrase. I had no idea that it has this specific meaning, and I would guess most consumers don't, either. If it was clickbait, it was very bad as clickbait.

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